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From: labc-3dc@e260-4g.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Chr$(4) and Linefeeds
Summary: Different ways...
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Date: 28 Jan 89 09:33:02 GMT
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In article <8901270945.aa15170@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> UNCKNG@UNC.BITNET ("Kevin N. Gunn") writes:
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>                                               What I'd like to know
>is WHY DOS 3.3 NEEDS that carraige return.

DOS 3.3 only looks for DOS commands at the start of a line.  If ctrl-D isn't
the first character, the command gets ignored.  ProDOS tried to be more
intelligent about it; it finds the commands anywhere.  However, I believe
that issuing a chr$(13)chr$(4)"catalog" while get you nowhere under ProDOS.

>-Kevin N. Gunn
>unckng@unc

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